london-to-brighton

Updated: June 27, 2025

They saw me back to the hotel in a body; and as we turned in at the porchway, who should come down the street but Jinks, striding elbows to side, like a man in a London-to-Brighton walking competition! . . . He told me, as we found our bedrooms, that 'of course, he had gone up the hill, and that the view had been magnificent. I did not argue about it, luckily: for here comes in another queer fact there was no moon at all that night.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - News from the Duchy